· Private foundation
Marcia Paulsell Zech Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RYTHER CHILD CENTER | $2,000 |
| NEW BEGINNINGS | $1,000 |
| PIKE MARKET SENIOR CENTER | $1,000 |
| YOUTH EASTSIDE SERVICES | $1,000 |
| MEDIC ONE FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| SOUND GENERATIONS | $1,000 |
| GOOD CHEER FOOD BANK | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| SEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL | $1,000 |
| FAMILY WORKS | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| NORTHWEST HARVEST | $500 |
| FOOD LIFELINE | $500 |
| MERCER ISLAND YOUTH & FAMILY SERVICES | $500 |
| SALVATION ARMY NW DIVISION | $500 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
26 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- SGSOUND GENERATIONS5× · 2020–2024 · $5k · revenue +14%
- NBNEW BEGINNINGS5× · 2020–2024 · $5k · revenue +49%
- PMPIKE MARKET SENIOR CENTER5× · 2020–2024 · $5k · revenue +5%
Funded once
- CDCOUNTRY DOCTOR COMMUNITY CLINICSone grant, 2020 · $500
- SPSEATTLE PARKS FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $250 · revenue +70%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
United way of snohomish county improves lives for families in snohomish county by bringing people, resources, and strategy together.
Seattle humane promotes the human-animal bond by saving and serving pets in need, regardless of age, ability, circumstance or geography.
To bring people, communities, and resources together to ensure waterfront park thrives as a vibrant gathering space - uplifting locals, fostering connections and honoring seattle's natural beauty and stories.
Preserve in perpetuity the natural habitats, rural landscapes, and open spaces of the great peninsula of washington's puget sound.
KCSARC is the largest and most comprehensive non-profit provider of sexual assault services in King County and Washington State. Our vision is a community free of sexual violence. Our mission is to: give voice to victims, their families,…
Siff is a seattle-based 501(c)(3) arts nonprofit dedicated to the creation of vibrant experiences and spaces that champion film discovery and arts education.
RE Sources mobilizes people of Northwest Washington to build just and thriving communities and to protect the land, water, and climate on which we all depend.
To cultivate leaders and community partnerships to advance environmental justice.
Healthpoint strengthens communities and improves people's health by delivering quality services, breaking down barriers and providing access to all.
Disability rights washington's mission is to advance the dignity, equality, and self determination of people with disabilities. we work to pursue justice on matters related to human and legal rights.
Discover Your Northwest promotes the discovery of northwest public lands, enriches the experience of visitors and builds community stewardship of these special places today and for generations to come.
Sustainable Path Foundation promotes sustainability and health in the Puget Sound region through collaborative approaches informed by scientific understanding and systems thinking.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mercer Island Schools Foundation and the most unlike its peers is American Diabetes Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 44 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
24 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 24 of the 35 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds SOUND GENERATIONS ↗
- Who funds NEW BEGINNINGS ↗
- Who funds PIKE MARKET SENIOR CENTER ↗
- Who funds University of Chicago ↗
- Who funds CHILDHAVEN ↗
- Who funds FAMILYWORKS ↗
- Who funds MEDIC ONE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BURKE MUSEUM ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST HARVEST EMM ↗
- Who funds MERCER ISLAND SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FOOD LIFELINE ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds HUMANITIES WASHINGTON ↗
- Who funds Mercy Corps ↗
- Who funds Bike Works Seattle ↗
- Who funds LifeWire ↗
- Who funds MERCER ISLAND COMMUNITY FUND ↗
- Who funds Island County Historical Society ↗
- Who funds GOOSEFOOT COMMUNITY FUND ↗
- Who funds Youth Eastside Services ↗
- Who funds American Diabetes Association ↗
- Who funds King County Library System Foundation ↗
- Who funds Northwest Parkinsons Foundation ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE PARKS FOUNDATION ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Seattle Foundation · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · The Norcliffe Foundation · United Way of King County · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Gates Foundation · Medina Foundation · Catania Family Foundation · Fales Foundation Trust · Elizabeth a Lynn Foundation · Dv & Ida McEachern Charitable Tr · Moccasin Lake Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Marcia Paulsell Zech Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Mercy Corps — 47% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.